I think one reason the American right is so insane is that the only actual historical conservative tradition in this country is slavery and Jim Crow, but this can't be admitted
Today in there’s nothing new under the sun: In 1903 a white hotel worker became a right wing celebrity for being fired after refusing to make booker t washington’s bed because he was black and a bunch of people around the country raised thousands of dollars on her behalf
in most of Europe by contrast you've got monarchy and official state religion, which while not great in themselves can be filled up with a lot of different policies
Nah, in Europe the conservative tradition is hostility to democracy - you can see it in elements of the elite right from time to time, like with that hilarious coup plot that was exposed in Germany.
Relatedly, when two boys raped a Jewish girl in France, it was in a wealthy center-right-voting suburb, but "the trad French elite hates Jews" is so mindblowing that everyone is pretending it's left-wing anti-Semitism.
Yeah, but this does lead to really insane right-wing politics, including blaming the left for everything, e.g. blaming the Greens for a) mandating heat pumps and b) not installing them fast enough.
I’m not saying it’s great, just that there’s something to hook into that isn’t one of the worst crimes in history. more healthy mentally, though it’s no guarantee
The Bundeswehr's biggest base is named after Rommel, speaking of one of the worst crimes in history. Elsewhere, there's total denial of wartime collaboration; Austria is as usual the worst, with its "we were the first victims" bullshit. Then, there's Belgium's erasure of the Congo Free State...
